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Professor/Teacher & Professional Artist. Richmond Garrick is a professional artist who works in all media, but mostly in oils. He draws on personal history for subject matter, which tends to be both emotional, and psychological. They are considered to be "Expression of Oppression, A Metaphor for Thinking About The Unthinkable". The paintings he creates are activist paintings and they are a visual metaphor for the oppressed. They examine human conditions, tragedy and Insanity. He looks at humanity inflicting pain on fellow human beings with sadistic pleasure. The images are bold, thickly layered and expressive. He tends to universalize them through both traditional and abstract tecniques. As a result, the process results in heavy textures, that is both expressive and didactic. The ground becomes a burden for pain and anger. The heavy layered brushstrokes become the syntax for the piece. The physicality of the process makes the dialogue of his paintings engaging, intense and dramatic. Working with oil on canvas, he communicates his personal reaction to the violence that raged for ten years in Sierra Leone, and caused the death of many people including his own brother. Such violence still continues in different countries. He paintings reflect a tradition of Goya, Leon Golub, and Sheba Sharrow whose art counters the militaristic propaganda that too often glorifies the exploits of the battlefield. Richmond has won many awards including "Lajos Markos Art Foundation Scholarship" for representational art. He has been reviewed in top newspapers in the United States.

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